Prime Minister

Chapter 877
When Zhang Yue arranged for Huang Lu to be handed over to prison, Huang Lu was quite reluctant.

He is a man of idle nature, and he is unwilling to ask him to be in charge of a prison.

At that time, the officials praised "Ning Dengying, not Qing."I would rather hold the tree than be a prisoner. '

What scholar-bureaucrats admired was Dengtai Pavilion, and being promoted to be a prominent official, and they didn't care about the speed of promotion, and they talked about the word Qinggui.

But for Huang Lu, being a prominent official is a kind of idleness.

He doesn't want to be dispatched by important dramas, and has no intention of getting involved in such fat jobs as intermediary prisons.But Zhang Yue was determined to push Huang Lu to the top position. He not only recommended Huang Lu to Han Jiang who was still in the Daming Mansion at the time, but also wrote to Huang Lu saying that this is just a job, and he doesn't care about anything at all.

Huang Lu listened to Zhang Yue's words and inquired carefully that it was true, so he accepted the position decisively.

As a result, Huang Lu deliberately did not notify any officials in the prison on the first day, and even arrived an hour late on purpose, but found that there was no one in the yamen, and even the door had disappeared, and his new official was rejected on the first day of his tenure. outside the gate.

As an official, Huang Lu didn't feel displeased at all, but said in his heart, Saburo really didn't fool me.

Huang Lu, who did not seek to make progress, was later promoted to Zhijianyuan.

This is a noble position for an official, but Huang Lufan sighed in the letter with Zhang Yue.

In ancient times, there were no admonishing officials, and everyone from the public officials to the workers and businessmen could admonish the emperor.But since the Han Dynasty, admonishing officials have been set up. Is this a good thing for the people of the world?

How will public opinion be heard in the sky in the future?
Zhang Yue laughed at him when he heard it in the northwest, all the businessmen in the capital were vying to get acquainted with Huang Lu, and the exchange office was making a lot of money every day, counting money every day and getting cramps, Huang Lu actually complained to him about these insignificant things.

When Huang Lu arrived at the Jiaoyin Prison this day, he talked to Zhang Yue about the Jiaoyin Institute.

Huang Lu said: "Now it seems that Mr. Han, Mr. Fu Zheng, Mr. Zeng Lu, as well as the empress dowagers of the two palaces, and even the empress are all buying shares in the stock exchange. As for other important ministers, there are too many to enumerate."

Zhang Yue said: "It's good to protect it."

Huang Lu said: "Although the three dividend divisions and the Shaanxi transshipment division have increased in recent years, the proportion of them has decreased through the method of issuing new shares. Most of the new shares issued in these years have been bought by the royal family and the stock exchange. Of."

Zhang Yue said: "Anzhong, it is not easy to really distribute the benefits to the common people. If the imperial court has anything to benefit the people, the officials will get it first. There are two official characters, and only when the upper one is full, will they read it last." Let's see if there is any left over for the mouth of the people."

Huang Lu said: "The most difficult thing at the moment is that the annual profit of the Exchange is at the top of 300 million guan. In the past two or three years, the profit will not increase. I am afraid that in another year or two, it will be difficult to have a dividend of 300 million guan per year."

Zhang Yue said: "Tell me what can you do?"

Huang Lu said: "The board of directors of the Exchange Institute proposed that the imperial court come forward and propose to stop the seventy or eighty Jiaoyin shops in Panjialou Street, so that the Exchange Institute can monopolize the exchange quotation market in Bianjing."

Hearing this, Zhang Yue's eyes froze and he said, "I'm afraid this move will require a lot of swordsmanship."

Huang Ludao: "Duzhi, the price difference between the exchange quotation and the salt quotation has dropped from the original 250 yuan to [-] yuan. Baiwen."

"The aforementioned Mr. Gu came forward and negotiated with the Jiaoyin Shop Guild on behalf of the Jiaoyin Institute. No matter whether it is official or merchant, the price will be reduced to [-] yuan. No one is allowed to increase or decrease the price."

"But after the reduction to [-] articles, the profit of private exchange shops is also higher than that of the exchange. This is also the reason why the profit of the exchange has stagnated in recent years."

Zhang Yue knew in his heart that in recent years, the branch offices expanded by the Intermediary Institute have already spread all over the first prefectures of various transshipment routes and economic routes in the Song Dynasty.After the establishment of the cross-reference trading system of various channels, the layout has been fully completed.

After the growth reaches its peak, the profit will also come to an end, and it faces fierce competition from private transportation shops, which leads to a decline in profits.

Therefore, the board of directors of the exchange proposed this proposal to monopolize the market.

Zhang Yue said: "Anzhong, monopoly money is of course easy to make, but it will also make this industry sluggish."

"The most important thing is that after the reduction of the salt exchange rate to two hundred cash, it is indeed convenient for the common people, and it also makes salt bills money."

Zhang Yue said to Huang Lu: "The imperial court can issue laws and regulations to restrict private exchange and reference shops, and let the exchange and reference shops figure out the rest."

"How?"

"Currently, salt and banknotes account for nearly [-]% of the transactions in the stock exchange, tea quotations account for about [-] percent, and the rest are money quotations, fragrance medicine quotations, alum quotations, and ivory quotations account for [-] percent."

"I plan to restrict the exchange of folk Yinyin shops to only one or two grades. For example, if you change Yanyin, you cannot change Tea Yin, Money Yin, Xiangyao Yin, Alum Yin, and Ivory Yin can only be exchanged for one."

Exchanges and quotation offices in various places can exchange any kind of quotations, but private shops can only exchange two kinds of quotations, and at the same time, you can only choose one of the salt quotations and tea quotations with the largest exchange volume.

Zhang Yue is using administrative means to maintain the profits of the exchange, and at the same time suppress the private exchange shops.

Huang Lu got Zhang Yue's promise and resigned.

Zhang Yue asked Peng Jingyi to send the yellow shoes out, and when he came back, Peng Jingyi said to Zhang Yue: "Mr. Duanming, I just saw that Huang Zhijian is using the Qixiang treasure car."

Bianjing’s rich and powerful are compared with each other, so driving is also divided into three or six grades. The Song Dynasty lacked horses, and ordinary cities were full of ox carts, mule carts, and donkey carts, but Bianjing mostly used horse carts.

In addition to pack animals, they are richer in the materials used to make carts. The top-grade carts are made of fragrant wood, and cars made of many kinds of fragrant wood are called Qixiang treasure carts, which are the ones used by yellow shoes.

Zhang Yue heard that Peng Jingyi smiled.

In the past few years, Huang Lu presided over the Jiaoyin Prison, Zhongshu, and the third department often made arrangements for the Jiaoyin Institute, but he pushed them all back.

In the eyes of outsiders, yellow shoes are lazy.

But it’s actually not the case. Sometimes inaction is harder than action. However, when a new official takes office, he always likes to find a sense of presence, but he doesn’t know that Xiao Guicao can do whatever he wants.

Huang Lu has withstood a lot of pressure for himself over the years, and the whole staff of the Interchange Institute appreciates his kindness.

And it's not that Huang Lu doesn't know, but he knows everything about Jiaoyin Prison, and has insight in his heart, but he doesn't interfere in any way.

So Huang Lu is not only Zhang Yue's friend, but also a true confidant.

As far as Zhang Yue knew, this Qibaoxiang chariot was bought by the Interchange Office for Huang Lu to come and go in and out on weekdays.

……

At the meeting between the two governments the next day, Lu Huiqing mentioned to the emperor that he would cast two coins.

The so-called two-fold coin is to alleviate the increasingly serious money shortage. The imperial court casts one copper coin for two copper coins.

This two-fold coin was not proposed by Lu Huiqing at first, but by Wang Anshi.

However, Lu Huiqing's proposal was opposed by Feng Jing and Zeng Bu in the court.

To put it bluntly, isn't this two-fold discount the imperial court stealing money from the people?

As a Duanming Palace scholar who is not a member of the two governments, but can participate in the great politics, Zhang Yue also listened to everything. He felt that the differences between himself and Lu Huiqing were so great that they could not be reconciled.

(End of this chapter)